A clean database stems excellent email deliverability and ROI. Consider this, research shows that B2B data decays at a rate of 2.1% per month. This is an annualized rate of 22.5%. (Marketing Sherpas). So whether you utilize an organic or bought email list, get into a data cleansing arrangement to guarantee deliverability and CAN-SPAM consistence. Correspondingly, not all ESPs cater list management or cleansing services, so you’ll be needing a software a third party service provider that can do that.

Drop the hard bounces. They’ll be hurting your sender reputation. The same goes with inactive contacts or opt-outs. For some reason, they’ve decided to stop engaging or plainly cut ties with you. But you can try reaching out to them for a one last push just in case you can still do something to save these contacts. Confirm if its really the end of the line. Ask them if your content is something they’d still be interested in. If there is no saving them, then move on. In this case, it also do you well as it can assure you a targeted, CAN-SPAM conforming, list.

“What would happen when a customer registers an invalid email address into the marketer’s online registration, contact form or subscription page?” Clients were asked about the rate of their typo errors and their replies were mostly “If it bounces back, my ESP filters it out and removes it from my list. It’s not much of […]

The IT business is among one of the industry behemoths in the world today. With the fast-paced upgrades in innovation, businesses and a lot more are fusing IT in their operations. Likewise, the advancement of more up to date and more effective software has many businesses testing the market and opening their ways to […]

As effortless as it may sound when said, maintaining data is not actually something that you can just breeze through. Even key employees, in many instances, acclimate to the gaps brought about by terrible data and the matter in question gets to distinctly escape the B2B marketing leaders. Taken cover behind those bounces and unsubscribes, […]

Have you ever wondered why some data records or lists that you stored isn’t accurate after a few months or year? Well, I bet you already know why. It’s because Data’s can change over a period of time. In marketing, Data profiling is essential. If you’re more in the email marketing strategy, you need accurate […]

There is a lot that a business email list can tell you about your market. However, just how far are you willing to let it dictate what your business does? Do you really have to send a message to every single prospect on the list or do you just prefer a select portion?

Content materials that offer “practical advice” are what technology buyers, like those in your IT contacts list, want to read the most, among other things. This is according to a recent study cited by the Content Marketing Institute where the respondents consisted of both vendors and buyers in the tech sector. As a subset of […]

So you got yourself some fresh leads from your marketing efforts and your favorite B2B database vendor. Now, what do you do with those? That’s right: lead nurturing, and this post tells you six of its least-known secrets and how each applies to you, the IT marketer. Although you may be quite familiar with this […]

Pinterest is fast becoming the next big social media phenomenon. Within a matter of a few months, site traffic has increased five-fold while its user base has grown around 150% since the start of 2012, giving new opportunities in social media marketing. Companies are now using Pinterest to boost marketing activities such as growing their […]

From a B2B marketing standpoint, the value of a well-established software community is priceless. It’s a dynamic venue for generating feedback, bringing users and prospects together, growing software/IT leads database, and promoting your brand. If you’re wondering how you can build one for your own product, take a look at the following guidelines.